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OT -HUGE WARNING!!! - RADY AND ALL OTHERS CHECK YOUR PC'S!!!

I know this is off topic but its a huge problem...
The last 2 nights I have been wrestling with my PC to remove a virus that my PC at home received. Monday night 777 files were infected, last night 2437 files were infected 2433 were cleaned.
My PC doesnt start up normally and I have to log on in "Safe mode - with networking"
anyone else have this?
This morning I checked my email and got one from "Rady"... So please check your PC's for viruses... There are free online virus scans...

go to Google, search for "Online Virus Scan" and Trend Micro offers a good one...
Below is the email I received.
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From [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Sent Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6:29 pm
To [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Subject Failure ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ].com)
Attachments
DELETED0.TXT 1K

ALERT!!!
This e-mail in its original form contained one or more attached files that were infected with a virus or worm, or contained another type of security threat.

The following attachments were infected and have been repaired:
No attachments are in this category.

The following attachments were deleted due to an inability to clean them:
1. message.pif: W32.Netsky.Q@mm

The Following attachments were not delivered due to inbound mail policy violations:
No attachments are in this category.

Road Runner does not contact the sender of the infected attachment(s) in the event that they were not actually sent from the indicated party.

Please contact the sender directly to alert them of their issue with infected files if you wish to do so.

For more information on Road Runner's virus filtering initiative, visit our Help & Member Services pages at [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], or the virus filtering information page directly at [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

OK man, just check out the comp with some antivirus progs. I strongly recommend Norton Antivirus.
And one more thing, put a prog called Black Ice which blocks all exe files that are running without your permission.

Then you definitely need to lock up that process. Is it visible? If you have another HDD just put the infected one in a slave modeand run Windows from the other one. Then try to search for infected files and running processes. It's very important you put the infected HDD in a slave mode. But before doing that install Black Ice thing on uninfected HDD so it would prevent virus from running on your second HDD.